A patient first approach towards budgeting
Patient satisfaction is first on the agenda as the Western Cape Department of Health allocates more funds to repair public hospitals.
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Testing views on HIV testing Living with AIDS # 424
At a media briefing later this morning (25/03/2010), Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi will outline how ready the country's health facilities are to test up to 15 million people for HIV. This is for the imminent HIV Counseling and Testing (HCT) campaign launching in April. People who have tested and are living with HIV indicate that they are ready to help if needed.
Lack of staff hampers Mpumalanga TB progress
Mpumalanga's cure rate of 60% for Tuberculosis falls far below the national target of 70% and is a sign that the province's TB Control Programme is failing. Many patients are defaulting on treatment and dying of TB. The province is also home to one of the six districts with the worst track-record of curing TB in South Africa. A critical staff shortage, says the provincial TB unit head, is hindering progress.
Explaining TB-HIV integration
From the 1st of April, HIV and TB patients will experience a major shift in policy when they go for their next appointment at a public health facility. The two will be treated by the same unit from now on. We find out why.
‘Danger pay’ for TB staff
Durban healthworkers who treat patients with drug-resistant TB should be given special incentives such as 'danger pay'.
GF Jooste leads the way in TB care
A TB Unit at one of South Africa's busiest hospitals is at the forefront of showing why this disease which is killing thousands of South Africans, is curable.
I didn’t think I’d have TB
My name is Lungi Langa. I am a 24-year-old HIV-negative health journalist. I am living with TB. It sounds odd when I say that. But it's real.
Healthworkers pay heavy price for TB service
TB has permanently altered the lives of a number of health workers, who are six times more likely to get drug-resistant TB than the general public.
Rift valley fever cases rise
Cases of Rift Valley Fever continue to rise with The National Institute for Communicable Disease (NICD) confirming up to 39 human infections and 2 deaths.
SA intensifies HIV testing Living with AIDS # 423
Within a few days, Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, will launch a massive campaign aimed at encouraging millions of South Africans to test for HIV. The campaign will precede the implementation of new treatment protocols for AIDS and TB on April 1.
Matsoso tipped for DG post
Former Medicines Control Council (MCC) registrar Precious Matsoso has emerged at the front runner for one of government's toughest jobs ' Director General in the National Department of Health.
SA has a weighty problem
South Africa is sitting on a malnutrition time bomb ' which has seen people either being severely over- or underweight, top nutrition expert Professor Demetre Labadarios has warned.
Global Fund hopeful about health targets Living with AIDS # 422
Mother-to-child HIV transmission in the developing world could be eliminated by 2015 and so could malaria if rich countries and industry do not reduce or discontinue their funding, according to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Global Fund reports back
Every day, programs supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria save at least 3 600 lives, prevent thousands of new infections and alleviate untold suffering. Global Fund present its 2010 Results Report, which shows how its investments have helped accelerate progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). All the documents can be found here.
Rift Valley Fever outbreak under control
An outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in the Free State has resulted in the death of one person and six others hospitalised.